Book review: The ideology of managerialism. Fragments of a future theory

Adams GB Balfour DL (2014) Unmasking Administrative Evil. 3rd edition. Routledge.

Bettache K (2026) The crisis we are not naming: the psychology of capitalism. British Journal of Social Psychology 65(1): e70044. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70044

Boddy CR (2023) Is the only rational personality that of the psychopath? Homo economicus as the Most serious threat to business ethics globally? Humanistic Management Journal 8: 315–327. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41463-023-00150-y

Boddy CR (2025) Should capitalism be deemed psychopathic and criminalised? A reply to “Psychopathy Incorporated”. International Journal of Organizational Analysis 33(12): 174–189. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijoa-09-2024-4797

Bonta J Andrews DA (2023) The Psychology of Criminal Conduct. 7th edition. Routledge.

Bonta J Bourgon G Rugge T , et al. (2021) A system-wide implementation and evaluation of the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision (STICS). Journal of Criminal Justice 74: 101816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2021.101816

Bouagga Y (2013) Humaniser la peine ? Ethnographie du traitement pénal en maison d’arrêt. Thèse de sociologie, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

Bush J Daryl M Harris DM , et al. (2016) Cognitive Self Change. How Offenders Experience the World and what We Can Do About It. Wiley Blackwell.

Carlen P (2002) Governing the governors: telling tales of managers, mandarins and mavericks. Criminal Justice 2(1): 27–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958020020010201

Cracknell M (2023) The diminishing voice of the probation service. Probation Quarterly 27: 36–40. https://doi.org/10.54006/bafw7149

Deleuze G (1968) Différence et répétition. PUF.

Gagné M Tian AW Soo C , et al. (2019) Different motivations for knowledge sharing and hiding: the role of motivating work design. Journal of Organizational Behavior 40: 783–799. https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2364

Graeber D (2015) The Utopia of Rules. on Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. Melville House.

Graeber D (2018) Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and what We Can Do About It. Penguin.

Güntert ST (2015) The impact of work design, autonomy support, and strategy on employee outcomes: a differentiated perspective on self-determination at work. Motivation and Emotion 39(1): 74–87. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-014-9412-7

Hanson LW Baker DL (2017) “Corporate psychopaths” in public agencies? Journal of Public Management and Social Policy 24(1): 3. https://digitalscholarship.tsu.edu/jpmsp/vol24/iss1/3

Herzog-Evans M (2019) French early release: McProcedures and McReentry. European Journal of Probation 11(3): 188–201. https://doi.org/10.1177/2066220319897238

Herzog-Evans M (2023) The loss of meaning in mass McProbation and McRe-entry. In: Maier K Ricciardelli R McNeill F (eds) Punishment, Probation and Parole: Mapping out ‘Mass Supervision’ in International Contexts. Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 31–53.

Hilberg R (1961) The Destruction of the European Jews. 3rd edition. Yale University Press.

Hood C (1991) A public management for all seasons? Public Administration 69: 3–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00779.x

Hood C Jackson M (1991) Administrative Argument. Aldershot.

Johnston E Pivaty A (eds) (2023) Efficiency and Bureaucratisation of Criminal Justice. Global trends. Routledge.

Klikauer T (2013) Managerialism. A Critique of an Ideology. Palgrave MacMillan.

Klikauer T (2023) The Language of Managerialism: Organizational Communication or an Ideological Tool? Palgrave MacMillan.

Micocci A Di Mario F (2017) The Fascist Nature of Neoliberalism. Routledge.

Millings M Burke L Annison H Robinson G Surridge E (2025) A fork in the road: Probation unification in England and Wales two years on. Probation Journal 72(3): 256–273. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/02645505241303755

Ritzer G (2019) The McDonaldization of Society. 9th edition. Sage.

Robinson G (2018) Delivering Mcjustice? The probation factory at the Magistrate’s court. Criminology and Criminal Justice 19(5): 605–621. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818786997

Sennett R (2007) The Culture of New Capitalism. Yale University Press.

Steensma S (2025) Ordinary People, Extraordinary Crimes: Bureaucratic Structures and the Banality of Evil. Master Thesis. Lund University. Sociology of Law Department.

Thomas-Peter BA McDonagh JD (1988) Motivational dominance in psychopaths. British Journal of Clinical Psychology 27(2): 153–158. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8260.1988.tb00763.x

Uzonyi G (2020) Bureaucratic quality and the severity of genocide and politicide. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict 13(2): 125–142. https://doi.org/10.1080/17467586.2019.1650387